"It Now Has Two Faces"

"Leone said the stone was placed amid the bricks by the slave who built the furnace: 'We infer ... that the man ... was using and believed in the North American version of the hybrid religion whose origins come from West Africa.'
"'You would pick up the stone, and you would put it some place because it has the power of the deity,' he said."

Michael E. Ruane in The Washington Post reports on the recent discovery of slave artifacts at Maryland's Wye House plantation, where a young Frederick Douglass once lived.